Sentences with phrase «heavily subsidised»

The fees are also about people making a small contribution to the cost of an expensive service that will continue to be heavily subsidised by the taxpayer.»

The controversial new law commits the government to providing heavily subsidised food to around 819 million poor people in urban and rural areas.

But this is not enough to cover the costs of borrowing # 11,000 or more at anything other than a heavily subsidised rate of interest of around 2 %, at today's energy prices.

The inefficient, expensive, and unreliable Green Energy Revolution ® ™ can not stand on its own two feet, and is heavily subsidised.

Perhaps one of the most heavily subsidised industries in Europe's history, which had virtually no market before government intervention, complained to the EC that China was subsidising its solar panel manufacturers.

These sorts of statements are used as the basis for irresponsible, economically irrational policies, like carbon pricing, Kyoto Protocol, mandated and very heavily subsidised renewable energy, etc..

On the other hand, the highly polluting fossil fuel industry is heavily subsidised and is a major cause of climate change and ocean acidification, but this does not seem to concern Mr Taylor.

Trillions pa are being diverted into the pockets of those offering heavily subsidised so guaranteed profitable snake oil remedies like Musk and the renewables industry.

You can wreck a first world economy in a heartbeat by relying on heavily subsidised and chaotically delivered wind and solar power.

Flummoxed renewable energy zealots can't escape the obvious connection between heavily subsidised and utterly unreliable renewables and rocketing power prices.

The most heavily subsidised form of transport is probably public transport, notably suburban and regional passenger rail services.

The reverse in Queensland where roof - stop solar installation is heavily subsidised, flow - back electricity is bought by the utility at several times the cost of regular power, and the erraticness of the flow - back has imposed high costs on the distribution system.

Barnes, in Queensland solar rooftop installations are not only heavily subsidised, their (highly variable) surplus electricity is fed back into the grid at an extremely high price, guaranteed for 20 years or so, causing a number of grid problems.

If, despite having done all this and using realistic figures, you do actually benefit financially, then you are being heavily subsidised by rate payers, tax payers and other electricity consumers.

No one is going to come and build a new gas generator whilst wind is so heavily subsidised.

For the EU, their heavily subsidised wind and solar power will always deliver intermittent and erratic supply at great cost.

Stanwell did not expand on its characterisation of «heavily subsidised» renewable energy.

Small emitters pay much higher charges (proportionately) than major emitters that are heavily subsidised.

Nevertheless, the Stanwell CEO had a spray against solar PV, the «heavily subsidised» renewable energy, and the carbon tax.

Since we began in December 2012, we have added to our concerns the economic and social harm caused by rocketing power prices and unreliable power supplies, the product of heavily subsidised and intermittent wind power: the results that have played out in Australia's wind power capital, South Australia, will cripple that State at an economic and social level for decades to come.

At present they are being used inappropriately as in the UK where heavily subsidised solar farms are inappropriate in our cloudy country

To underline the argument, Germany's largest utility, E.ON, said it might dismantle its mothballed gas - fired plant in Malzenice, Slovakia, and relocate it, partly due to the impact of heavily subsidised growth of renewables in Europe.

It has been heavily subsidised.

Yet with the brilliant but bulky — in size and cost — Sony PS Vita suffering similar teething problems in the face of ever - powerful and more heavily subsidised smartphones, is releasing a bigger, more expensive version of any portable game system really the way to go?

Speaking at the International Air Transport Association annual general meeting in Miami, Al Baker criticised attempts to restrict what American carriers argue is heavily subsidised competition from Gulf carriers.

One NEU member said: «We heavily subsidised trips and clubs.

The cost of this training has been heavily subsidised by the Australian Government.

It offers heavily subsidised exhibition rates, extensive marketing resources and bespoke social media campaigns, all targeted to the needs of edtech start - ups at two significant points in their development: discovery and scale.

Solar power initially became viable in the UK because it was heavily subsidised.

«I also have had heavily subsidised university housing for 5 years, and my son goes to the university kindergarten, which is also very cheap.»

Even with the boosted discount this would involve them paying more in mortgage payments then they typically would with heavily subsidised rent.

In Australia, for example, BC pills are heavily subsidised while Viagra is not (except for veterans).

Man City are heavily subsidised by abu dhabi, for example between 2008 and 2011 over # 1 billion was poured in to man city by sheik mansour.

• Give away contraception, heavily subsidised by Medicaid, Title X grants and other federal and state programs.

Because contraception distribution is heavily subsidised by Medicaid, the Title X family planning programme [10] and other programmes, low - cost and freebie contraceptive giveaways are not loss leaders for Planned Parenthood.

And more recently, reports have emerged that amid the crisis, Venezuelans are increasingly capitalising on heavily subsidised electricity costs in the country to mine bitcoin — that is, the process of validating new transactions onto bitcoin's public ledger (the blockchain), which is then rewarded with the receipt of newly minted digital currency.

Both companies are expanding in neighborhood services and heavily subsidising restaurant deliveries.

So the committee made the decision to heavily subsidise the cost of watching Spurs play in Kuala Lumpur so that cost is not a reason for any SSSC member not to make the trip.»

It may well have been wrong to heavily subsidise university students when only around 2 % of adults went on to university, but as this percentage accelerates towards 50 % it is also just impossible to do so.

Some of this ignorance can be put down to mixed messaging in that the government still heavily subsidises the meat and dairy industries.

The figure dwarfs former home secretary Jacqui Smith's claims that ID cards will cost individuals no more than # 30 each, unless the government intends to heavily subsidise their production.

PACER Rebates are available for schools visiting certain attractions - these can heavily subsidise your Canberra school camp and so we always recommend that you apply for these, To find out more and apply, visit the website for Civics and Citizenship Education.

However, the scales are increasingly tipped against them when the governments of other countries, especially Canada, heavily subsidise their game developers».

We now have the situation where we are committed to continue heavily subsidising renewable - energy projects at a time when excess capacity is increasing and prices to non-subsidised power stations (but not to users) are falling.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

«vowed to continue his campaign against «the bad economics» of heavily subsidising wind energy developments, when there were «far cheaper ways to reduce carbon emissions»»

Or to point out that when Britain privatised its electricity industry it suddenly found that had to heavily subsidise its nuclear industry because it was so inefficient compared with all other forms of electricity generation that were in use, and its costs had previously been hidden.

The Coalition are proposing heavily subsidising new coal - fired power stations because banks and investment funds will not support them — simply because they are a very bad investment.

For those who are offered tenancy, Chambers waives any rent payment for their first year of tenancy and heavily subsidises rent during the second year.

Not exact matches

Wine Institute vice-president of international marketing Linsey Gallagher, who manages the institute's export programme, involving more than 170 wineries that export to 138 countries, observed that California wine exports had grown by an impressive 78 % by value in the last decade, despite the challenges of heavily - subsidised foreign competitors and high export tariffs.